Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 1 Content: ELA Dates: 10/1-10/5 Theme: What do myths, legends, and tales reveal about world cultures?
Essential Questions:
Why do cultures develop stories that are handed down from generation to generation?
Why do some stories live on long after a culture has disappeared?
What lessons can myths, legends, and tales teach today’s readers?
Focus Standards
RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details.
RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
L.6.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.6.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
W.6.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question.
Ongoing Standards
L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
RI.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is coveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
RI.6.9 Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issus, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.6.1a Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
SL.6.1b Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Objectives
TLW participate in meaningful discussion using group norms and standard English.
TLW will read closely passages to identify details, to determine stylistic elements, and to infer cultural values.
Assessment Product
The students will create a chart to fill in with information about the myths, legends, and tales to be read during the unit. Included on the chart are the headings title, characters, country of origin, problem, setting, hero, characteristics.
The students will locate a story about a character from Greek mythology whose name has been given to a constellation. They will re-tell their myths orally in small groups.
After reading “The Story of Ceres and Proserpina,” students will record the cause and effect relationships on a graphic organizer.
The students will keep a running list of words from Greek and Roman mythology that are the sources of modern English words.
Key Questions
What is a myth?
What is genre?
What is inference?
What is cause and effect?
Observable Student Behaviors
Students will use standard norms to collaborate in groups for discussions.
Students will complete all assigned charts, lists, and graphic organizers.
Vocabulary
Cause and effect Genre Inference Myth
Suggested Activities
Read the following excerpts and discuss the similarities and differences of myths, legends, and tales: “How Day and Night Came,” “Sal Fink,” “The Beggar and the Blanket,” “Baucis and Philemon,” “Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest,” and “Orion” (HMU6, pages 676-681).
Read “The Story of Ceres and Proserpina” (HMU6, pages 684-688). Discuss the elements of cause and effect found in the story and complete a graphic orgainzer.
Create a chart to fill in with information about the upcoming myths, legends, and tales to be read. Fill in with information about “The Story of Ceres and Proserpina.”
Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 1 Content: ELA Dates: 10/1-10/5
Theme: What do myths, legends, and tales reveal about world cultures?
Essential Questions:
Focus Standards
Ongoing Standards
Objectives
Assessment
Product
Key Questions
Observable Student Behaviors
Vocabulary
Genre
Inference
Myth
Homework
Terminology for Teachers
Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination
High Yield Strategies
Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice |
Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback |
Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers
Resources
Professional Texts
Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Art, Music, and Media
Manipulatives
Games
Videos
Sight Words
SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons
Other Activities, etc.
Language
Arts
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